SAFe® 4.5 Distilled: Applying the Scaled Agile Framework® for Lean Enterprises, Second Edition
by Richard Knaster, Dean Leffingwell
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Lean-Agile Leaders
“Grow leaders who thoroughly understand the work, live the philosophy, and teach it to others.”
—Toyota Way Principle #9
As with any significant organizational change, the enterprise’s executives, leaders, and managers are ultimately responsible for successfully adopting Lean-Agile practices and the results they deliver. Only they can change and continuously improve the system in which people work.
To accomplish this, managers must first become ‘Lean-thinking manager-teachers,’ who are trained in—and then become trainers of—these leaner ways of think and working. As they evolve to become Lean-Agile leaders, management goes from task-based to mission-led direction.
Empirical evidence from hundreds of SAFe implementations ...
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